I'm not saying that watching a show or two will malangle ones mind but the idea of such creatures is the extreme of stupid. In the same category I would put, werewolves, vampires and the like. I simply refuse to watch them.

These things are woefully popular. Like True Blood( is that the name). I've not watched enough of it to to know the theme but I gather a major part is the issue of discrimination . I've not watched enough to be sure. As the whole issue is asinine . If one wants to create a show on discrimination, a worthy issue, pick real conceptsThe concept that a creature could still be mobile after being dead is silly.

I recall a cool movie from a up and coming director a few years back that a good plot going until the stars went into a bar that was infested with zombies or some such crap. I remember turning the movie off at that point in disgust. Later I finished it just to make certain I was correct.

Dave

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There is an old story that the legend of vampires came from observing people with a rare genetic defect – they can't make hemoglobin. The disease is Porphyria - named after the ring that makes the center of the hemoglobin molecule- porpheryn. In the middle ages, people didn't understand or recognize it was a disease and so stories circulated about people drinking blood (usually animals not humans), etc. Them assuming animal forms like bats was an embellishment of the real symptoms. And of course religion had to be thrown in the stories to support "The Church" so we got the fear of the Cross and Holy water BS !! I don't know where the stake through the heart came from ... maybe Vlad the Impaler !

BUT lacking hemoglobin they were very pale skinned, could NOT come out during the day (sunburned very easily) = were nocturnal , and some had facial distortions exposing the canines (fangs)... and in addition exposure to garlic worsened their condition. So some was fact but a lot was fiction. . . And of course Dracula was fashioned from Vlad the Impaler...

I've heard that. But the "undead" what's with that. If one is not alive, then one has no way of moving as there is no way for the muscles to contract. Also no brain activity. If the drink blood to "unlive" how do metabolize it? If they have no muscle control the blood will eventually leak out their butt. Messy

Also, how does one physically grow extra long teeth then later have them shrink. It's just crazy. This all aligns itself with credibility in movies where cars collide with a bus and the bus flies though the air

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And this reasoning is why I HATE Disney movies. Take Finding Nemo...who ever heard of talking and singing fish? If they are under water, how do fish, who have never been to a learning institution, even know the English language???This is the pinnacle of stupidity. How can a prince kiss a princess who has been asleep for years and wake her up? Is there some special DNA on his lips?And the idea of a girl trapped in a tower hundreds of feet in the air and she climbs down on her hair...lol.. What a joke. the hair would be so brittle by the time it got to that length it would just snap! and she would plummet to her death.

Yes, Disney is over the top. I forget the reason they give that the shark in one of those movies learned to be a vegetarian. Or all the animals in Madagascar loved each other. Lions, tigers, monkeys, antelope . Or that the animalas are all environmentalists. If they were they wouldn't crap in their rivers. Oh, they don't crap in movies.

And my all time stupid cartoon series is the Barnyard series where the male Cows have udders and the female Cows have flirty eyebrows, and bumps on their chests similar to Barbie dolls for breasts. I'm not the only one who thinks this is dumb

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